Nacro report looks at how we can reduce the number of people who die in the days, months, and years after they are released ...

The report: (Mis)trusting Justice? Personal stories of legal proceedings in the Criminal and Family Courts is based on 131 ...

Probation Inspectorate report looks at promoting a culture of learning in probation around SFO reviews, moving away from a ...

Progress on reducing women’s imprisonment risks stalling unless the government matches its welcome ambition in this area with ...

For at least the last 25 years a prisoner survey has been part of almost every prison inspection undertaken by HM ...

The National Audit Office finds that the electric monitoring system is not working as intended, despite a huge increase in ...

The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) has used the platform of his annual report laid before parliament yesterday (9 July 2026) to call for the creation of an independent body to scrutinise prison ...

The Magistrates’ Association has warned that a lack of accessible, useable justice data in England and Wales is undermining public confidence in justice and causing policy decisions to be made without ...

In the final Annual Report of his six year tenure as Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor describes how long lock up times and poor regimes – which have barely improved since he first took up ...

Earlier this week (1 July 2026), the government announced the launch of an independent review of the prison system to “provide a strategic, risk-based assessment of the current, emerging and future ...

Our new report, Beyond the classroom, explores the experiences of people studying distance learning courses in prison and the views of the prison staff who make it possible. What struck me most in ...